The Presidential Prerogative

Governors are not exactly the most popular of public servants in India today. Governors do not figure in people’s thoughts.

“President Pranab Mukherjee’s advice to Governors at the recently concluded conference of Governors to go by the “sacred text” of the Constitution was wholesome.

But it would have rung truer to his listeners had he succeeded in persuading Prime Minister Modi to appoint non-party persons to that constitutional office,” says Gopalakrishna Gandhi, a former Governor of West Bengal.